Validation of the supervisory portion of a distributed fault tolerant control system

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The supervisory portion of a distributed fault tolerant control system (DFTCS) is responsible for managing redundancy, ensuring consistent control, and recovering from failures. Such software poses a unique set of challenges for validation testing. A test environment for such validation is described in this paper. Data has been collected on a total of 1000 test hours involving 2 million control actions and 700,000 randomly injected single and multiple faults. No anomalous behavior has been observed. Quantitative results include a coverage of 0.98 in the presence of an average of 2 simultaneous faults (maximum of 4 simultaneous faults) and an average ...
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The supervisory portion of a distributed fault tolerant control system (DFTCS) is responsible for managing redundancy, ensuring consistent control, and recovering from failures. Such software poses a unique set of challenges for validation testing. A test environment for such validation is described in this paper. Data has been collected on a total of 1000 test hours involving 2 million control actions and 700,000 randomly injected single and multiple faults. No anomalous behavior has been observed. Quantitative results include a coverage of 0.98 in the presence of an average of 2 simultaneous faults (maximum of 4 simultaneous faults) and an average response time (in presence of faults) of 10 msec when less than 2 simultaneous faults were injected. A separate long term stability test running at the Experimental Breeder Reactor II site of the Argonne National Laboratory West has been running continuously since November of 1991.

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